Version of IBM Connections required

The Aspire IBM Connections connector was created and tested using IBM Connections 4.5, 5.0 and 5.5 using Atom Syndication Format (Atom protocol for the responses), Seedlist service provider interface (SPI) provided with IBM Connections (for the feed of different applications) and Apache Abdera API to process the XML send it by the IBM Connections Seedlist. This SPI applies to versions 4.5, 5.0 and 5.5 of IBM Connections only.

The seedlists are a modified Atom XML format and follow the Atom paging model. The seedlist uses standard Atom elements and field metadata descriptors and fields.

Before installing the Aspire IBM Connections Connector, make sure that:

  • IBM Connections site is up and running
  • You need an IBM Connections user login with search-admin and dsx-admin roles to crawl documents for all available applications. The search-admin and dsx-admin J2EE roles are used by each IBM Connections application for securing access to seedlists, users, groups, and search engines. The search-admin role is populated by default with the IBM Connections administrator user account that was provided to the IBM Connections installation wizard.
  • If your site (IBM Connections site) has security, you will need the certificate file to import it to a keystore file. You will need the user/password login later, as well as the keystore file path and it's password (pass1234), as part of installing the IBM Connections Connector.

You can use Java keytool command to create the keystore file.

 keytool -import -alias ibm -file ihs.cer -keystore mycerts -storepass pass1234
  • Also, you need to create or have access to a directory to store the <wplc:timestamp> values for each application crawled. That value is required to perform an incremental crawl. Also to store some other control files (Advance Properties/IBM Connections Working Directory) .

Windows or Linux

The Aspire IBM Connections connector can run on either Windows or Linux. It uses the ATOM API over HTTP or HTTPS to communicate with IBM Connections.

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